River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1887-05-19
WISCONSIN NEWS.

Oshkosh viii have new lock factory.
senator Sawyer pays taxes on six
dogs.
La Crosse county pays $50 bounty
on wolf sealps.
The prisoners at the state psniten-
tiary number ASP.
Hurley is to have a new school build
ing and a new Jail.
A crazy woman is wandering in the
woods near Shawano.
j. l. Case has made about $50 900 in
California real estate
Frank Jennings. in telling tree
near Durand, was killed.
a Sons of Veterans camp IS to es-
tablished in Fond du Lac.
Jack Shepard. Of Eau Claire. has
killed five bears this spring.
The Kewaunee fireman will purchase
grounds and create a public park
The pioneers Of Juneau county will
meet at Mansion on the 4th of July.
Merrill has organized military
company with VIM. Enos. as captain.
Racine has bicycle club. number
ing thirty members, the largest in the
state.
Milwaukee's female brass band will
travel with Burr Robbins circus this
season.
Everett Minett, Is years Of age. was
drowned at Richlaud Center while
bathing.
The mineral paint found at Cameron
IS said to be worth $50 per ton in Mimi
eapolis.
Florence business men have petitioned
the county board for new court house
and Jail.
The locks on both sides of the Cedars
are now open and navigation down the
Fox is now open.
The reunion of the 2lst Wisconsin
volunteer regiment win be held in Me
nasha, June 22-24.
Owen Mullen. of Portage, on a wager
sucked thirty eggs in succession. He
suffered no i'll effects.
Anton Schmidt. Of West Bend. was
instantly killed by runaway team.
He was 20 years of age.
Bonnie Walker. aged l., tried 10
light fire with keros,no at Durand.
and was seriously burned
Mayor Walber. of Milwaukee. who
sprained his ankle April -, is still suf-
fering from the accident.
Chas. Miller, an Evansville farmer.
drew & ,19S for one lot of steers sold
in that market one day recently.
A man named Kingman caught, on
hook, from the north pier at Racine, a
silver eel that measured three feet in
length.
4 new depot viii be built by the St.
Paul road at Prussian Heights. near
Won Moltke Park. Milwaukee, at cost
of $4,000
\ Hudson Judge makes the following
announcement: Marrying taken in at
the lowest living rates, for cash or APP
proved paper.
1t is reported that VIM Lucas Of 81.
Louis will build a 100000 hotel at
Green Lake on his property known ~
Cote Brillante.
An ovarian tumor weighing thirty
pounds was removed from Mrs. Der
nard PcrOn, who resides on Johnson
street, Fond du Lac.
Hon. Frank Challoner proposes to
move $1,000 house from Omro to-
Oshkosh on barges. the first undertake
ing of the kind on record.
BY collision in the Milwaukee &
Northern yard at Green Bay. Engineer
Brady was pitched through the cab
window and seriously injured.
The village board of Horizon haspu
chased three acres of ground in the
northern part OF tn village, to be used
as park and Il public playground. o..
The annual convention of the Con
gregational churches Of the Winneba.
district, comprising the Northwestern
quarter of the state. will be helGat Me
masha. June and 3.
At the Sparta term Of court Mrs Lucy
Reynolds was granted a divorce from
her husband. Royal Reynolds. The
latter was soon after united in marriage
to his first divorced wife.
viii Green, log driver on the Big
Elk river, was drowned below the Mns-
ser dam Monday While searching for
the body thoremains of Chris Yoeker.
who was drowned a year ago, were re-
covered
The oldest deed in the state is in the
register Of deeds Office Of Crawford
county. 1t was made in the year 1887,
given to Jonathan Currie by the Maud
swissie Indians, The territory inclu-
dcd St. Paul. Eau Claire and Chippewa
Falls.
Eleven suits have been commenced
against residents of the towns Of Wal
worth and linn, Walworth county, for
alleged implication in the tar and
feather riot at Eantaine in April. II is
rumored that other arrests viii be
made
Albert Fink, son of ex-United States
Marshal Fink of Milwaukee. recently
passed an examination for admission
TO the royal academy of art at Berlin.
Mr.. Fink was one Of the eight selected
from the forty applicants who repre-
sented all parts Of Europe. He was the
only representative from America.
A slab of wood fell down shaft Of
the Montreal mine. Hurley. striking "a
miner on the head and fracturing his
skull. Patrick Murphy fell down a 200
foot shaft at the Ashland mine, the
first City feet Of which is perpendicular
aud the balance an incline OF seventy
FIVE degrees. and is alive with chance
FOR recovery. John Steele WAS killed
by rush OK dirt and water in the same
mine.
'Ien must work and women weep.